[MD] Reading & Comprehension

[Krimel]

[Mary Replies] 
I think Bo seeks what we seek.  
[Krimel]
Bo seek self aggrandizement. Is that what you are after? 

[Mary]
What would it be like to lift the veil?

[Krimel]
Hopefully you would at least then be able to at least see though Bo.

[Mary]
Erase our regular view of things as subjects and objects and instead see
only patterns of value.  

[Krimel]
Habits of thought like smoking are difficult but not impossible to break. 

[Mary]
What if we could do that all day?  Go to work, go shopping and see only
patterns of value.  What would we see?  I don't know.

[Krimel]
Why not do that? 
What is stopping you? 

Among the gifts that make us human is our ability to see things from
different points of view. Even to see them recursively, which is Hofstadter
point. Most folks including Pirsig have barely escaped the 19th century. He
at least sees that something odd has been happening around him and points
toward it. Surely you can do that.